Lo-Ki & Raven vs. Steve Corino & The Sandman

[8.0] "Really cool match here. Nice crowd brawl to start with the punctuation being a gnarly table piledriver from Raven. The Corino 1v2 segment is solid for a bit, but Sandman crawling slowly to the ring and then hitting the trash can like a war drum just in time for Steve to have run the blade already was awesome and his hot tag was just the same. Everything after that is really good, albeit with a bit of a sudden finish but it makes sense given the punishment Sandman took to the head. If we got an extended Sandman/Low Ki sequence before the finish I'd probably be giving this a 9 or 10. ***3/4+"

[6.0] "There is an almost unavoidable weirdness to this setting that unfortunately, Sandman's fake Enter Sandman entrance only exacerbates. For the most part, it's not nearly as interesting or weird as the lineup suggests, but Steve Corino is good enough to provide some worth beyond that elusive novelty. Sporting a crimson mask, he fires a few beautiful punches and provides an otherwise absent bite, impressively muscling this over the line. ***"

[5.0] "This was a weird pairing. Corino and Low Ki had a match the previous week that was way too short for what they were capable of, so pairing them with Raven and Sandman, I guess was trying to get them over to a broader audience? The match had a few missed spots and some harder than necessary shots. Don West randomly asking how the Sandman was still alive is kind of funny. I may have boosted the score because I like all guys involved, but you're not missing much if you skip this."

[3.0] "Walk-and-brawls are rarely any good, so the first part of this was a waste. The second stretch where Sandman was disabled on the outside and Corino had a crummy garbage match against Raven and Low Ki which wasn't any more interesting."

[5.0] "This was a shitty hardcore match with no psychology and just hitting each other with garbage cans over and over again. I tend to think that basing a feud on an angle from another wrestling company, active or not, is a bad idea. But this was a paint-by-numbers "hardcore" match."

[6.0] "This was a pretty basic weapons match. They were trying to capture the spirit of ECW, but largely failed at it."

[7.0] "I liked this a lot. It was a ECW brawl style match, but really well done. It had some nasty spots, such as Raven hitting a piledriver in to a table to Sandman and some cool use of trash cans. The action was nice and it was fun to see that Sandman hot tag. Low Ki didn't do much, but it was fine. Raven and Sandman's feud is quite interesting. Nice bleeding job by Corino."

[5.0] "Nonsensical hardcore bout where both teams insist on using tags when in the ring (why use tags in a match with no rules? ) This had a lot of boring walk and brawl stuff in the crowd before turning into a watchable match when everybody gets back to the ring, but it's nothing to go out of your way to see. Aside from the novelty of Low Ki being in what is essentially an ECW match, there wasn't anything memorable about this, and Ki himself didn't do anything to stand out."

[6.0] "This was some pretty decent mindless violence with Low Ki being an interesting addition to the usual ECW reunuion."

[8.0] "Sue me, I thought this match was pretty good. Very ECW-esque, it's a chaotic match with a lot of hardcore brawling and some big high spots scattered throughout and a nice dose of blood from Corino. I had to laugh at Sandman making a dramatic return and demanding a hot tag in a match with no tags, but at least he can hide behind his crazy character. Hey, how great would Low Ki have been in ECW if it survived?"